TY - GEN
T1 - Advancing evolutionary coordination for fixed-wing communications UAVs
AU - Giagkos, Alexandros
AU - Tuci, Elio
AU - Wilson, Myra S.
PY - 2015/7/15
Y1 - 2015/7/15
N2 - In this paper we present advances to our previously proposed coordination system for groups of unmanned aerial vehicles that provide a network backbone over mobile ground-based vehicles. Evolutionary algorithms are employed in order to evolve flying manoeuvres that position the aerial vehicles. The updates to the system include obstacle representation, a packing mechanism to permit efficient dynamic allocation of ground-based vehicles to their supporting aerial vehicles within large-scale environments, and changes to time synchronisation. The experimental results presented in this paper show that the system is able to adaptively form sparse formations that cover as many groundbased vehicles as possible, optimising the use of the available power.
AB - In this paper we present advances to our previously proposed coordination system for groups of unmanned aerial vehicles that provide a network backbone over mobile ground-based vehicles. Evolutionary algorithms are employed in order to evolve flying manoeuvres that position the aerial vehicles. The updates to the system include obstacle representation, a packing mechanism to permit efficient dynamic allocation of ground-based vehicles to their supporting aerial vehicles within large-scale environments, and changes to time synchronisation. The experimental results presented in this paper show that the system is able to adaptively form sparse formations that cover as many groundbased vehicles as possible, optimising the use of the available power.
KW - Coordination strategies
KW - Evolutionary algorithms
KW - UnmannedAerialVehicles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947080870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-22416-9_14
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-22416-9_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-22416-9_14
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:84947080870
SN - 9783319224152
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 124
EP - 135
BT - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th Annual Conference, TAROS 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Dixon, Clare
A2 - Tuyls, Karl
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2015
Y2 - 8 September 2015 through 10 September 2015
ER -